Dell Inspiron 630m: Excellent Budget Notebook with many Entertainment Options
By Audrey • Feb 26th, 2009 • Category: LaptopsDell Inspiron 630m is one of the best budget notebooks featuring lots of options to offer instant entertainment while on the move. This Dell laptop has got superb battery life, great performance, sturdy chassis, multimedia hotkeys and the major selling pint is that the notebook doesn’t charges too much in return. It’s surely a top notch mobile computing device. However, you have to sacrifice some of the options like Bluetooth, infra-red and Gigabit LAN and integrated DVD writer. Rest all is too good to resist.
Inspiron 630m is aimed at instant access to multimedia on the go. Its front panel has got eight multimedia buttons which enable users to control playback of audio/video files without touching the mouse. A media direct function is also provided for instant playback of audio, video and picture files from a DVD or from the hard disk. You don’t have to wait for the operating system to load completely before using these buttons. The device is powered via an Intel Pentium M processor up to 1.6GHz and 512MB of 533MHz DDR2 RAM. Obviously this is rather limited, and for use more performance intensive applications a stronger laptop like the Dell Latitude E6500, would be necessary. The Inspiron 630m also includes a 128 MB Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 which takes care of graphics processing and imaging. The device offers 10/100 LAN, 802.11b, 802.11g network interface along with four USB ports, 1 FireWire 400 port, S-Video, VGA anda dial up modem as well.
The Dell Inspiron 630m earns good scores in terms of performance and battery life. It has got a 14.1 inch widescreen display which is actually a boon for mobile video lovers. It can also play latest 3D games without any glitches and delivers awesome fluidity and fps while dealing with animations and complex virtual reality simulations.
